[cw-discuss] OT: Broken replies

[James E. LaBarre]

>>> (ARGH!!  this damned list that doesn't reply-to correctly!)
>>
>> I also find it *extremely* annoying. The whole point of a mailing list
>> is to have all questions answered publicly so it creates some sort of
>> knowledge base. IMHO not having a "reply-to" that automatically points
>> to the list address encourages private posts and therefore completely
>> defeats the intended purpose of the list. Anyway, I hope this will be
>> eventually fixed.
> 
> I'm sorry that you dislike it.  However, I am afraid that we have
> deliberately left it this way.  It is the mailman recommended default,
> and I choose to believe it is the correct setting.
> 
> If it helps, here is someone else's reasoning on the subject:
>   http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html


Yeah, well I've read that one many times before.  And I've seen a 
response to that, but can't find it in a Google search with so many 
misguided comments about it being bad.  But if the purpose of a 
discussion list is to send messages to *everyone* for everyone's 
benefit, and 95% of the other lists I use can handle it correctly, then 
an automatic response to the poster, not the list, os obviously wrong.